Starship Troopers
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Have you become a citizen? Do you want to, or have you sadly and prematurely renounced your citizenship?
This thread is for all things Starship Troopers.
Post pictures, mods, stories, testimonials or any other info showing SST to be the underrated gem we know it is.
What? You don't like it? I guess the Brain Bug has already gotten to you.. 
Well, did you want to live forever?
Quoted from TigerLaw:I like the game. I made a deal to buy one a little over a year ago that was i awesome shape; but the wife veto'd the purchase due to the play field toys. I'm not even kidding.
DENIED! That is a horrible story...
Wife is no fan of the bugs then, eh?
Quoted from MustangPaul:I saw the original movie when it first came out and LOVED it and bought the dvd when it came out then bought the HD Dvd when that came out and watched it like 30 times since. So...is that good enough to get into the club?
Oh ...and I did play it about 10 times at the Minnesota Pinball BBQ last week, it was GREAT!!!
You're IN!
But, I suspect you might just have a thing for Dina Meyer's boobs....
Quoted from Acampero:That makes perfect sense Rob. I agree.
Joe Balcer was the designer right?I see what you are saying, it's interesting because it is such a large part of the game. I just feel that it's not special, it's just part of the game. When I get MB in TFTC it feels special to me.
Bottom line is this game still rocks and I think it's very cool. Love that I picked it up.
How often are you getting Orbit multi-ball? I'm not very good, so I get it about once every 20 games. Seems very special to me...
The Live Assault Range multi-ball happens quite often, but I think you can ramp up the difficulty so it takes more hits to that moving target to start it the first time......
Quoted from Acampero:Im not getting a ton of the Orbit multi-balls maybe about as often as you, but the Live Assault happens multiple times in a single game. I cranked the difficulty up to high, reset the high scores and now the highest score on the box is 94 Million.
My high score is 230 million.... Highest score on the machine is 250 million....
Factory settings.
I have two high scores on the machine.. one at 195 as well...
Quoted from nighttaco:One of the things I don't care for is th psychic test.... I'm thinking of just turning it off.
Yea.. That's just stupid. I always think about turning it off in the middle of a game (after I get it), but never do because I forget.
Just avoid level 1 recon. 
Quoted from robx46:Yeah just avoid level 1 recon which isn't too hard, just need to hit each ramp. Although I only get the psychic test maybe every 2 or 3 games. So it hardly bothers me & I don't mind actually try to be psychic & getting a full match, which I still haven't been able to do yet. Best I've done is match a suit, so I'm clearly not psychic!
I got the match one time in maybe 300 games. Prize is an extra ball..
Still doesn't seem at all worth it.
Quoted from goatdan:I seem to remember when I was playing this before that at certain times, making shots with the pink flipper result in additional points or something - is this true, or did my mind make this up when i was younger?
Tiny flipper scores 2 for 1 bug kills...
Quoted from Pdxmonkey:I'm back in!!!!
Just got the game back but I have a broken plastic by the left flipper.
It's the one with the cannon mounted on it.
I was hoping to find another plastic.
Please let me know if you have one or if anyone knows where to find one.
Mine is broke on the other side!
Maybe we could swap? I'll take your good one....
Good luck on your quest!
Quoted from ExitWound:Who do you set your high score Avatar as? I used to always pick the Skull, but now I go with Michael Ironside because he's Michael Ironside.
I go by whatever I feel at the moment.. I went with the cow last time....
Quoted from Whysnow:thanks for confirmation. VERY strange they did not wire the mini-flipper with an active EoS. I guess they thought it would not be used very much and not for trapping?
Aren't all of these SEGA flippers solid state, that don't really require an EOS switch? I thought this was the case.
Quoted from Whysnow:not sure, but the 2 main flippers on SST have wired EoS on them. That alone made me think it is odd the mini does not.
I am now not sure how Sega deals with pulse power verse hold power??? Anyone know. I assumed it was like other Sterns where the EoS tells the MPU to drop/modulate the power to hold?
now I am confused.
They are only 2 lug coils
I thought they used a timer to cut back power to the coil after a few milliseconds.
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